Card 03 of 10
That's Coach Piron at Batavia, number 89, somewhere between 1980 and 1983 — decades before the Bulldog sideline was his to run. It's his family's own photo. It has never been published anywhere.
There are nine more cards. The only way to get them is to give.
Not a one-time award that runs out. An endowment — the money stays invested, and only what it earns is given away. That's what makes it permanent.
A $50,000 matching gift is secured. It releases as soon as our half is raised and received — so your gift counts twice toward the goal.
Our $50,000 plus the $50,000 match. Fully funded, it pays out a scholarship every year without ever spending the principal.
Not once. Not while the money lasts. One student handed the ball every single year, permanently.
The card in your hand is free — we handed it to everyone at the gate. The other nine aren't for sale anywhere. They arrive because you gave.
A randomized three-card pack from the set. Duplicates happen, which is the point — duplicates are how a set becomes a thing people trade.
Half the set in one go — five different cards, no duplicates. Enough to see where the story is headed.
All ten cards, sleeved — including Card 3, so if you weren't at the game you're not missing one.
The full set in a gold parallel edition, hand-numbered out of fifty. Fifty exist and the number is printed on the card.
A card signed by Dennis and numbered against the roughly 700 students he taught in ten years. The number is the message.
Card 3 is the only card that exists right now. It's the one we printed for the game. The other nine still have to be designed and printed, and a few of the photographs still need permission from the photographers who took them.
So: the set ships this fall, not next week. Give now and your name goes on the list — your tax acknowledgment letter comes on the normal schedule, and the cards follow when they're real. We'd rather tell you that than promise a date we can't hit.
Every card in the set is a real card — a stat line, a story, and the ask on the back.
Ten years in the classroom, roughly seven hundred students, and a football program he still runs. The scholarship is how that keeps going after him.
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